“Dig Your Food – From Field to Fork” is the motto of the 7th Culinary Cinema of the Berlinale, which will be held from February 10 to 15, 2013. Sixteen films about food and the environment will be presented in the movie theatre at the Martin-Gropius-Bau. Following the films screening at 7:30 pm, star chefs Nils Henkel, Michael Hoffmann, Kolja Kleeberg, Hendrik Otto and Tim Raue will each serve a meal inspired by a film in the “Gropius Mirror” restaurant, an elegant tent lined with mirrors.

“If you want maximum freshness and pesticide-free foods, you should garden. If you want a green city, you may become a guerrilla gardener and throw seed bombs. In Berlin, urban gardening has taken root. The Prinzessinnengarten at Moritzplatz will now be able to remain where it is, while other grassroots movements are spreading all around the world. Gardeners are among us! A…

AS THE movers and shakers head to the Swiss mountain resort of Davos this week for the annual World Economic Forum, their credentials as global leaders look anything but resilient. Their official theme will be “resilient dynamism”, whatever that means, but what they ought to be talking about is the low level of trust the public has in their ability to do anything useful. The annual "Trust Barometer" survey published by Edelman, a public-relations firm, reports widespread scepticism about the ethics practised by political and business leaders. The lowest scores were when those surveyed were asked if they trust leaders to “tell the truth, regardless of how complex or unpopular it is”: only 18% trusted business leaders, whilst government leaders scored a yet more miserable 13%.

This lack of trust seems strikingly personal. As Edelman points out, trust in business and government leaders is far lower than trust in the respective…

It is the expression of logic and common sense when the major container carriers raise rates with almost the same amount and at the same time, the analyst company SeaIntel thinks. SeaIntel has examined a number of rate increases and has concluded that “if carriers are indeed colluding illegally on the Europe trade presently, they appear to be uniquely poor at doing so.”

BY OLE ANDERSEN Offentliggjort 21.01.13 kl. 15:17

In May 2011, the EU competition authorities carried out a number of dawn raids at a total of 12 container carriers including the three largest carriers, Maersk Line, MSC and CMA CGM, following suspicions that agreed rate increases were a possible breach of the EU cartel and competition regulation. The result of the raids has still not been published,

Now, the analysis company, SeaIntel has examined a number of general rate increases, the timing of the carriers’ …

Rising production costs have pushed Peruvian agro-industrial company Camposol to increase the price of its asparagus by 30%, the company announced Friday.

Chief Commercial Officer José Antonio Gómez Bazán explained the January 2013 increase comes as a result increasing costs over the past three years, including a 50% rise in labor costs, a 30% increase for water and an almost 300% jump for machinery.

The Camposol pocketbook has received further pressure from the need to renew crops in new areas.

“To prepare an hectare we need between US$30 thousand and US$40 thousand, which includes technified irrigation,” Gómez Bazán explained.

If the market rejects the price increase, Gómez Bazán warned that the asparagus business could be put at risk of disappearing.

Last year also saw a 20% price increase for the vegetable, as well as a drop in the Peruvian export volume.

SAN RAFAEL, CA -- SafetyChain Software, the leader in Safety Chain Management solutions that help manage and promote safety and quality compliance at all points in a consumable goods supply chain, is very pleased to announce that Dole Fresh Vegetables, a major producer of fresh fruits and vegetables, has gone live with SafetyChain for Food™ for a fresh approach to its food safety initiatives.

"We cannot wait for suppliers' safety assessments -- we take a pro-active, prevention-based approach. We ensure all food safety programs are followed at the start of every point of production, from planting to harvest to post-harvest. Additionally, we are taking steps that prepare us for compliance with announced and anticipated FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rules. We partnered with Safet…